Can I trust eSports betting odds?
Maksym YushytsynThe times when it was possible to bet only at the races have long passed. Now there is not a single sport where business could not be done: everywhere you can bet on individual athletes or teams, and then dream of their victory and their own gain. But for some time now, such eSports that are so popular today are increasingly among such sources. Betting on games - whether it be League of Legends, DotA or the FIFA series - is in great demand. Using this page you can easily compare the best odds. But are these forecasts generally confirmed?
LCKSpring 2020 has just begun, and by mid-April, this South Korean high-level tournament will determine the best team in the League of Legends, for short: LoL. And, of course, these matches are presented at all major bookmakers.
LCK (officially named League of LegendsChampionsKorea) is one of the last major leagues to kick off in the 2020 season. Korea, which has long been considered the leading e-sports country, has ceased to be the undisputed leader among the regions since last year, because in 2019, the world title passed to China.
In this regard, LCKSpring 2020 offers this year a good opportunity to look at teams for the first time. There have been many events on the transfer market, and there is at least one new face in the lists of almost all the teams. Last year's T1 champion is ready to fight and wants to add another victory to his 2019 triumph. Despite some reinforcement, the team, which includes the superstar Faker, is not considered a favorite. Now the best betting odds are for Gen.G, which was formed only in 2018 and still has not shown itself to be particularly strong. However, because of the high “quotes” of the new replenishment, bookmakers predict success for this team.
By the beginning of the group stage on February 5, Gen.G had to prove whether the players could justify the laurels assigned to them in advance. The first real criterion for this, of course, was the KT Rolster team, which has been in e-sports since 2012 and has already earned a six-figure prize amount.
Odds of betting all the time predicted a rather unambiguous outcome of the game. And if Gen.G had a coefficient of 1.21 (when using euros, players are paid 1.21 euros if successful), then the highest betting coefficient on the market belonged to KT Rolster. He was truly colossal: 6.50. Anyone who decides to bet on this team would receive 6.5 times more than his bet if he won.
But did the predictions of the bookmakers come true? The game ended with a score of 2: 1 in favor of Gen.G, so the odds in this case were not deceived and predicted the winner correctly. Nevertheless, the meager result shows that betting odds should not always be blindly trusted - it is better to use them to support the bet decision.